Andrea Nini

Andrea Nini is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester. He specializes in forensic linguistics and computational methods for authorship analysis of historical and malicious texts. Nini completed his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics at Aston University in 2014, following an MA in Applied Linguistics with a Forensic Linguistics specialization.

His research focuses on:

• Computational approaches to authorship analysis
• Forensic linguistics applications in legal contexts
• Stylistic text analysis
• Quantitative linguistic methods
• Sociolinguistic variation

Nini has received the Exceptional Performance Award and IAFPA Research Grant for his contributions to the field. His recent work develops new frameworks for forensic voice comparison and applies likelihood ratio methods to authorship verification.